Nice soaps for the final rotation!
Nice soaps for the final rotation!
That is one soap I have not tried but gets rave reviews!
Try grating the rest of the Harris into the bowl before giving up on it. I find that a lot of soaps are easier to load this way, and fixes the light and airy problem.
View attachment 1080460That’s it. More than a serviceable cream from Portugal. Moving on to the Spanish stick!
La Toja is one of my favorites, too. This will be the third or fourth stick for me. I have finished a tube of the cream. I have used a can of the foam, too. I have the Manantiales version of the soap waiting for something. I swore I wouldn't duplicate a product before finishing everything else, but I got a craving. The same would have been true if I had gone for Cade.La Toja is one of my favorite soaps. The mineral salts in it works like an alum bar closing nicks and helping skin but it does it during your shave instead of after!
La Toja is one of my favorites, too. This will be the third or fourth stick for me. I have finished a tube of the cream. I have used a can of the foam, too. I have the Manantiales version of the soap waiting for something. I swore I wouldn't duplicate a product before finishing everything else, but I got a craving. The same would have been true if I had gone for Cade.
I'm guessing the lather compares favorably to Haslinger, too?!Found this puck of Vitos in and amongst my stuff. I don’t recall when or where I acquired it. No scent to it, and it’s hard as a puck of haslinger. Tried it out this morning, and the lather was great. Right on, Vitos.
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Found this puck of Vitos in and amongst my stuff. I don’t recall when or where I acquired it. No scent to it, and it’s hard as a puck of haslinger. Tried it out this morning, and the lather was great. Right on, Vitos.
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So it's been good for me to discover this thread as a newbie that has taken to this whole wet shaving thing like a duck to water in the last couple of months. It definitely is nice to get on here from time to time and see that there are others with RAD, BAD, ASAD, & SSAD...and judging from some of the posts and photos in this place, many have these disorders worse than myself!
Anyway, I've been inspired by the OP's journey to plow through with unwavering determination (or 3017 is the correct term I suppose?) his soap that he had started to acquire, and how 4 years or so later he did it. Very inspiring and very commendable. I'm not going to purchase ANY MORE soap/cream during this time (or I'm going to try really hard not to) with the only caveat being that I'm supposed to go to Scotland later this year (trip got pushed back about 5 months - you can probably guess why) and when I'm there I really want to find some "Essence of Scotland" Soap from the Gentleman's Groom Room.
So here goes. Below is my pic of the soap/cream software lot that I have acquired, I estimate 90% or so of this came from fellow B&B members on the BST forum (is there really anywhere better for a new wet shaver to acquire goods?) Only thing not pictured is an Arko Shave Stick that I forgot to get out of the drawer. I did recently finish a tube of Gillette Pure cream that is also obviously not in the picture. In the pair of OS mugs in the middle are a puck of Col Conk Lime and good old Williams in the other. The journey starts now.....
1st up is a sample of CBL "Barbershop" that was sent to me graciously by fellow member DMShaver from his stash in Kansas City when I purchased a couple of other nice things from him.
I'm an everyday single pass shaver. What do you guys think? What's your best guess on how long this road is going to be for me? Most of these products are lightly used with at least 75% or more remaining, a few are brand spanking new.
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